That Which Shiri is Reading

This is a slow burn sort of a book, at least as regards pages 1-141 (which is where I stopped last) and Sarah Pinborough is really quite good at it. Perhaps it’s because she’s British (we’ve discussed Anglo-superiority as regards the build-up in TV several times on the podcast). I’m still not entirely certain WHAT IS HAPPENING, and normally, if that were true almost halfway through a book, I’d be preparing to set it down, but A Matter of Blood is different; I can’t wait to have some more time with it to find out. The slow burn here, rather than being info dump-y or boring is super, super, super, super creepy, that crawling sort of horror one gets in the middle of the night when one absolutely must go down in the basement to fetch something and feels those eyes on her neck…

It’s the near-future thing that does it (or years that were near future when the book was written in 2010), the minuscule changes that make the current year even darker and more brittle than the world already is. There’s a bit of police procedural, which is nice because I don’t have a TV procedural at the moment and I normally do. The characters, each doing some good, some evil, some unspeakable…

Can’t wait to see what happens next. And I shall, right now, go but the remaining books in the trilogy on my library request list. Allons-y!

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Bloginatrix and disembodied voice at The Last Chance Salon (lastchancepod.com). RN at the Department of Therapeutic Misadventures. Currently at work on Hero Handlers (Spring '15).

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